“Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.”

A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.

I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.

feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.

You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone. 

Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.

The better you feel, the better life gets.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.

We will never reach an age in life where there is nothing to learn.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Life is meant to be lived to the fullest, no matter your age.